My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.